Marketing Quotes - Page 2

Luxury items are those things that are mass-produced by a third party and marketed to us to purchase so that we can express our individuality.

What is the “Once upon a time” of your brand story? Ask yourself this: “How does what I’m building help consumers close the gap between who they are today and who they want to be tomorrow?

The internet and online communication is the window into your world - but real life, in person communication / connection is the door.

There is no faster way to garner the lasting respect of employees, partners, and consumers than to become the embodiment of an ideal.

Considered your brand a life experience.

Take your dreams off the ground to the clouds of business where your products will contribute to make the world a better place.

The best ads are about the customer and how the product will change his life.

Embracing your authentic self is medicine for the soul.

Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything we do…

The No. 1 most credible source of [online] recommendations is YouTube,” Rand says. “But a friend liking a brand page and sharing that is now considered the second-most prominent form of recommendation, and third is online brand reviews.

No offense but a seller will say whatever it takes to sell a product but if you sum it up, it comes down to hard work.

The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration.

Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate and gratify sexual longing. In suggesting a vision in place of a woman, it has a numbing effect, reducing all senses but the visual, and impairing even that.

Creating a company culture is the first operational step in becoming a bold, brave fempreneur. It creates certainty, a road map and stability.

Business is war and your past clients and customer’s great online reviews are your elite soldiers in battle.

Commitment shows up before results do!

I cannot stress how important and effective it is to leverage the principles of S.T.A.R.T. - Serve. Thank. Ask. Receive. Trust.

Politics, like insurance, security, pharmaceutical and religious institutions all work the same. They sell the idea of a threat along with the antidote. Marketing 101.

All human aspirations are opportunities for brands to build relationships.

Sex always sells-always has, always will.

You can follow others into mediocrity, or you can create something that will be remembered

People buy for their reasons, not yours.

Let's face it. We live in a command-based system, where we have been programmed since our earliest school years to become followers, not individuals. We have been conditioned to embrace teams, the herd, the masses, popular opinion -- and to reject what is different, eccentric or stands alone. We are so programmed that all it takes for any business or authority to condition our minds to follow or buy something is to simply repeat a statement more than three or four times until we repeat it ourselves and follow it as truth or the best trendiest thing. This is called "programming" -- the frequent repetition of words to condition us how to think, what to like or dislike, and who to follow.

Don't disregard your so-called "stupid ideas." They may be inspired thoughts and high-potential opportunities. Whatcha gonna do?

Creatives Creed: Destruction is creation. Creation is destruction.

You have to actively listen to your clients and provide the service they’re looking for!

Quality sells itself. No hype needed.

To beat the competition and succeed in today's competitive market, you should be abreast with the change in the marketplace not forgetting about incorporating creativity and innovation as a lifestyle.

Creating an ideal customer profile helps you understand who are you talking to through your marketing, and it helps you carry that message and vibe through to your customerexperience.

The future will look futuristic only because we will be trying to make it look futuristic.

Be realistic, Aiden, I told myself. You know your value to the penny and it's measured in inches, time, age, stamina, looks, and being able to put up with gross and sometimes bizarre situations. Personality was far down on a much longer list, and even farther down came intelligence. You should have insisted on having sex.

Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.

Find another solution. That’s how you move toward success.

Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you contribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go.

A candidate with no experience they would package as a citizen politician, a lifetime hack as an elder statesman.

You are your greatest product and behind every book lies an author who wrote it.

Pink is female - but why? Are girls any more pink than boys? Are boys any more blue than girls? It's something that has been sold to us, mostly so other things can be sold to us.

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

You can't judge a man by the way he reacts when things go right, but by the way he reacts when things go wrong.

What sells a book sells a book, same in traditional or self-publishing. You gotta shake your tail feathers.

The easiest thing to sell is truth.

If [the loss of fertility of the soil and the loss of soil as a renewable resource] does happen, we are familiar enough with the nature of American salesmanship to know that it will be done in the name of the starving millions, in the name of liberty, justice, democracy, and brotherhood, and to free the world from communism. We must, I think, be prepared to see, and to stand by, the truth: that the land should not be destroyed for any reason, not even for any apparently good reason. We must be prepared to say that enough food, year after year, is possible only for a limited number of peaople, and that this possibility can be preserved only by the steadfast, knowledgeable care of those people.

Is it weird that when I see a cool t shirt or pick up a toothbrush or see a new car I don't think about the product itself? I think about the thousands of people and dollars to make it.I think about how the retailer that took the risk to buy and resell it. Then I work backwards to the store costs, the distributer who got it there, the shipping company that brought it over from China, the factory workers that made it, the people that sourced the materials and the people that harvested the raw materials, and on and on...The global economy is amazing. Your $20 t-shirt is a freaking miracle.

We have put our words on steroids and amped the language up so high that unless we communicate in overdrive and hyperbole, we believe--perhaps correctly--that nobody will hear us. In the process, we've sacrificed nuance and judgement and distinction, and thereby cheapened the conversation.

Many business people end up being relationship rich, and referral poor.

Perhaps one of the more creative promotions of all time wasin 1969, when a marketer with the Procter & Gamble Companycame up with the idea of giving away goldfish with each purchaseof a king-size box of Spic and Span.

This is what made the difference, they used social networking for entertainment and I used it for business.

By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself.

Doubt manifests itself in indecision.

By doing extraordinary things you are contributing to create a better world. Memorable should be the new usual…

If you want an incredibly passionate, happy, ALIVE business…don’t overcomplicate things. Once all is said and done, the foundational elements of a successful business are very simple: respect, service, value and sales. Comparatively, everything else is froth.

Best practices are those practices that generally produce the best results or minimize risk.

Companies that cannot successfully answer what they do fail to then understand how they can continue to do it in the face of change.

The rise of feminist underpants is a weird twist on Karl Marx's theory of commodity fetishism, wherein consumer products once divorced from inherent use value are imbued with all sorts of meaning. To brand something as feminist doesn't involve ideology, or labor, or policy, or specific actions or processes. It's just a matter of saying, 'This is feminist because we say it is.

There was a product which seemed attractive, expensive, portable, beautiful and simple. Everybody talked about its beauty but they bought it for it's simplicity.

All selling should spring from service

The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred.

You have a very high probability of your quote and your name being distributed, posted, and shared around the world!

Advertisement shouldn’t look like information, it should look like a promise.

I cannot stress this enough: content creators need to stop comparing their work with that of total strangers. Furthermore, we need to stop seeing ourselves as content consumers and realize that, as producers, we need time and distance from what is already out there in order to create truly innovative work. If you are always exposing your mind to others’ work, when will you gain the strength to create your own? Find a balance between inspiration and creation, and make sure that the first is indeed inspiring. What might start as a journey to gather ideas can quickly become a shortcut to discouragement. Know when to stop.